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Frankie and Johnny
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Duke Ellington
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Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts
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Oh, what a couple in love
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Frankie was loyal to Johnny
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Just as true as the stars above
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He was her man
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But he done her wrong
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Frankie went down to the drugstore
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Some ice cream she wanted to buy
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The soda jerk told her that Johnny
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Was making love to Nellie Bligh
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He was her man
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But he was doing her wrong
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Now Frankie's dad was a policeman
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She stole his old forty-four gun
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Then back to the drugstore she beat it
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Just as fast as she could run
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After her man
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Who was doing her wrong
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Now Frankie peaked in on the party
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She got a surprise when she saw
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That Nellie and Johnny were making love
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And sipping soda through a straw
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He was her man
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But he was doing her wrong
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So Frankie flew into a tantrum
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She whipped out that old forty-four
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And her rootie-toot-boom, that gal did shoot
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Right through that hardwood swinging door
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She shot her man
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'Cause he was doing her wrong
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So bring on your crepe and your flowers
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Bring on your rubber-tired hack
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'Cause there's eight men to go to the graveyard
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But only seven are coming back
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She shot her man
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'Cause he was doing her wrong
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Now this is the end of my story
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And this is the end of my song
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Frankie is down in the jailhouse
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And she cries the whole night long
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"He was my man
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But he was doing me wrong"
Frankie and Johnny by Jimmie Rodgers (19...
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